N&W/Scioto Valley Question

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Sturm and Dillard work for the N&W?   Yes!  And also earlier when it was
Sturm and Sturm.  

 

Gary Rolih

Cincinnati

 

 

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I don't think the connection if one as existed at "CANDO" was ever used for
revenue trains but it would have been more of a contractor's camp or laydown
yard during the construction of the C&O's Chesapeake & Hocking from the N&W
connection at Greggs/Waverly to Columbus. The contractor on this section of
the C&H was Sturm and Dillard. 

As an aside, Sturm and Dillard also did some tunnel work for the C&O between
Hinton, WV and Clifton Forge, VA. Did they ever do any work for the N&W?

Whit

NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org> wrote:

In a message dated 10/4/2007 9:45:47 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org writes:

There was station named Cando in 1929 just north of Circleville

"Jungle Jim"  -

Whit may have a point.  Cando translates into Ceee and Oh, as in

Chesapeake and Ohio.  When N&W was double-tracking Petersburg

to Suffolk in 1914, Burt, 2.2 miles east of Waverly was established at

the temporary east end of double track.  There was a single track

section through Coppahaunk Swamp which ended at Herma.  

Apparently Burt and Herma blocked trains through the single track

section. 

 

Between Glen Jean and Reeses, the C.& O. N. R.R. paralleled the

Columbus District in several places.  Circleville  (MP 679) to Cromley is

one example. As construction progressed, it would seem that C.& O. N.R.R.

trains would be diverted off the N&W and on to their own tracks where a

connection could be made. In compiling the list of Telegraph Station Calls, 

I thought we'd run into some temporary block stations from Gregg toward

Columbus, but I don't see any on my list.  Cando may very well have been

established to block and "OS" trains to dispatchers on both roads. 

 

Cromley did have a telegrapher which shows up in N&W's system

timetable eff. November 24, 1907. The telegraphic station call for

Cromley was "CR".

                                                                   Harry
Bundy





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